A concept alongside this is "small bets" with your time. I tend to make bets, and hope they pay off, and I see results.
Anyone have a really comprehensive way of doing this that doesn't create outsized overhead?
I’m glad you asked.
Here’s what works for me:
- don’t plan too far into the future, the further you do the less specific you should be
I like annual visions for each area of my life, so once a year reflect on each area and think where you’d like to be a year from now. My annual time capsule I call it, is coming up next week and I can’t wait!
- do monthly reflections
I have a google calendar reminder that links to a journal template. Here I briefly reflect once a month on what’s working and what’s not in each area
This is more tactical. Habits and things to help implement the vision
- ad hoc reflection
When struggling with something or needing to evaluate, I’ll just open a doc and type. Stream of conscious style to get it all out there.
Then read it and pluck out next steps. Sometimes this means pivoting, sometimes it’s just a deeper understanding of why the path I’m on is the right one.
Sorry for the sloppy writing here. I actually would like to write this up better when I’m not on mobile.
Hope it helps
I have a todo flow in sparksnip.com and then i have todo.monthlies, todo.weeklies, todo.dailies for tracking.
Then I break down everything into extremely reasonable, managable, actionable chunks. Every day I choose a "big 3". I always have so many todos per day (which is unreasonable), but I choose a non-negotiable 3 to finish no matter what. If I finish those three, then the day is a success.